SNG Part II - Day 10

There is a lot of stuff to cover so we'll see how it goes. Of course the big news was the Bloggers Championship on Stars...

It started with 1473 players. I didn't recognize anybody at my starting tables... Here is my blow by blow recap:

The first half hour, I was really getting cards but:

3:10 AQ... Hit trip Aces on turn only to lose to flopped set of 55 that boated on turn.

3:15 AK... Hit Broadway on turn only to lose to K2s flush on river.

3:25 T685... 1270th out of 1325 left

3:47 T1745.... 620th out of 1185 left

3:50 I survived all in with A7s on a A75 (all clubs) flop. I pushed and got called by QQ with one club... no club and I doubled up... T3540

4:00 First break... T3140 345th out of 1060 left

4:19 I have T3 in BB 67T flop.. I led out and he pushed... only 900 more to call so I called... he had flopped str8. T1890

4:30 T1590 463rd out of 657

4:40 T5205 more than doubled up with J6s in SB with flush on turn

5:10 Second break... 3180 240 out of 263

5:18 OUT... 240th.. Qh4h in SB... 4 other limpers so I called... QJT of diamonds... I pushed and got called by 2 and riased by another so I knew was toast... another diamond on T; but that didn't matter as somebody had flopped the flush (J5s)

So I finished in the top 15%... kind of.. as a lot of people did not play that were registered. While I am not second guessing my push (see Justification) as I was short stacked and decided to a quasi stop and go... unfortunately, I was was the one that had to go... plus one other who called with the open ended str8 draw. Had I just checked an saw all the action behind me, there was no way that I could have called. But I am OK with my decision. I never did see who won.

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It was also the start of the Heads Up Challenge 2... As predicted, I went down in flames. SirFWALGMan took care of me in two straight. I won't bore you with the details; but he has a good write up on it on his blog. Suffice it to say, HU is not my specialty. You can tell that in my SNGs as I have more 2nds than 1sts.

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I did play 3 SNGs over the weekend. Here are the numbers:

October SNG Breakdown
Desc	Oct 22	MTD	ITD
Games	3	44	480
1sts	1	6	59
2nds	0	8	68
3rds	0	4	52
4ths	1	6	49
5 - 7	0	13	142
8 - 10	1	7	110
ITM%	33%	40.91%	37.29%
ROI	51.52%	28.1%	14.20%
Net$	85	680	3750

1. 8th - A9s lost QT
2. 4th - J4s lost A7.. hand before... KTs lost 84 on river.. T high flop
3. 1st - AJ beat Q7

I did complete my 2000 pts for Caribbean although it was a rather expensive one so I should be hopping back on to the SNGs for the rest of the month.

The Longhorns kicked butt again this weekend. I actually doubted them as I didn't think that they would cover... I went with Georgia instead.... dang... The Cowboys with another huge breakdown at the end of the game that cost them a potential win.

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And finally, I had a home tourney that I also bombed out on....

All in all, I very disappointing poker weekend. I hate it when you really look forward to something and it just ends up kicking you in the junk. Oh well, what can you do.

I have updated my stats at the top right.. As you can see, a pretty bad week..